[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Chris

Social mobility has been a particular problem amongst people from ethnic minorities in the UK. Their presence in the cabinet signals that things are - slowly - changing. It is unlikely to alter the deliberations of cabinet very much because none of these people has come straight from a ghetto to government so they don’t bring that perspective. But their highly visible presence may perhaps permit some people from those places to dream and to aim for it themselves.

Without the “poxy press” making these observations, I am quite sure plenty of people from BAME backgrounds are making them for themselves.

And that's how it should be.